Lost Lots of Philadephia

No matter how many times you hear the oft-bandied statistics about the City of Philadelphia’s 30-40,000 empty lots, the numbers are still staggering. Though it is sobering to witness the immediate devastation of a natural disaster, urban wastelands are the arid result of a more insidious, decades-long process…

http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/July-2013/Lost-Lots-of-Philadelphia/

Collaboration Not As Easy As Pie

Photo: Joseph G. Brin

The URBN Center is a radically reconstructed interior on the Drexel University campus in Philadelphia, in a building originally designed by architect Robert Venturi.

As you pass through the glazed entry into a forest of exposed building systems, the scent of linseed oil is in the air. Open tread, wood stairways float up through a thicket of steel beams, bolts, wires, pipes and shut-off valves…

http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/June-2013/Collaboration-is-Not-as-Easy-as-Pie/